Content
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Seminar: 30 hours
- Independent work: 120 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. INTRODUCTION a. What is research? b. Types of research c. Ethical
questions in research d. Levels of evidence e. Errors in discoveries and
argumentation 2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT a. Measurement scales
b. Internal/external validity c. Repeatability d. Measurement errors e. Threats
to internal/external validity 3. TYPES OF RESEARCH AND TEHIR DESIGN a. Research
as process b. Quantitative and qualitative approaches to research c. Research
strategies d. Research design e. Research methods f. Sampling and the
representativeness of the sample g. Literature review (collection and evaluation
of references, professional and scientific writing, organization of science,
scientific publishing) and fundamentals of meta analysis h. Particularities of
research in dietetics i. Research methods in dietetics and related fields
j. measurements and data collection in dietetics 4. STATISTICAL METHODS
a. Repetition of basic statistical concepts and data analyses b. Statistical
power analysis c. Regression analysis d. Factors analysis e. Internal
consistency analysis f. Other statistical methods used in dietetics 5. WRITING
AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS
